{"id":14,"date":"2006-04-12T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/2006\/04\/12\/torah-yoga\/"},"modified":"2007-06-01T11:17:50","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T18:17:50","slug":"torah-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Torah Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article was published today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060412\/NEWS01\/604120491\/1001\/LOCAL\">Indianapolis Star<\/a>, my hometown paper.  It&#8217;s about outreach efforts meant to boost Jewish congregations.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"bodytext\"><em>Weekly Shabbat services at Congregation Beth-El Zedeck take a decidedly nontraditional turn once a month. The Torah may be read while congregants stretch and take deep breaths as part of an exercise called &#8220;Torah Yoga.&#8221;  Or, they might be welcomed by Torah meditations set to drums and chanting.  And frequently appearing on the menu of Shabbat options is a Torah nature walk and Torah bike rides &#8212; the &#8220;Tour de Torah.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can understand trying something new, but isn&#8217;t this just a bit much?  The goal of all this: to make the synagogue an enticing weekend destination for Jewish families.  Have the Jews jumped into church growth antics like Christians have?<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article was published today in the Indianapolis Star, my hometown paper. It&#8217;s about outreach efforts meant to boost Jewish congregations. Weekly Shabbat services at Congregation Beth-El Zedeck take a decidedly nontraditional turn once a month. The Torah may be read while congregants stretch and take deep breaths as part of an exercise called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}